I'm finally going to do it. I've been looking at building a MythTV box for over a year now. I just never could motivate myself to take the first step.
Last week I purchased a PVR-250 Model 980 from buy.com, and just last night I saw a $70 200gb harddrive on Outpost.com, so I went ahead and bought that as well.
I've already discovered by reading in some forums that the PVR-250 I bought which I thought would be an easy match for Myth is a newer model chipset (980) and they (Myth coders) haven't worked out all the glitches with it yet. Hopefully the great open source coders that are working on Myth will have it solved by the time I get all the hardware in place. The PVR-250 is the most widely used card of Myth users, so I think they'll be on top of it fast. I was trying to avoid the MCE chipset because I read about problems with it, but it seems those are all resolved now. The issue currently is around the 980 chipset that I just bought. Oh well, my first miscalculation, I'm sure there will be more to come.
I still need to buy a case, motherboard, processor, ram, and video card (output). I'll keep you up to date on my progress.
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